Electrophysiological Chronometry of Graded Consciousness during the Attentional Blink
| Autor: | Anna Eiserbeck, Milena Rabovsky, Alexander Enge, Rasha Abdel Rahman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Neural correlates of consciousness
Consciousness Cognitive Neuroscience media_common.quotation_subject Visibility (geometry) Electroencephalography Awareness Attentional Blink Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Visual masking Event-related potential Face Perception Visual Perception Attentional blink Generalizability theory Psychology Evoked Potentials Cognitive psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Cerebral Cortex. 32:1244-1259 |
| ISSN: | 1460-2199 1047-3211 |
| Popis: | One of the ongoing debates about visual consciousness is whether it can be considered as an all-or-none or a graded phenomenon. While there is increasing evidence for the existence of graded states of conscious awareness based on paradigms such as visual masking, only little and mixed evidence is available for the attentional blink paradigm, specifically in regard to electrophysiological measures. Thereby, the all-or-none pattern reported in some attentional blink studies might have originated from specifics of the experimental design, suggesting the need to examine the generalizability of results. In the present event-related potential (ERP) study (N = 32), visual awareness of T2 face targets was assessed via subjective visibility ratings on a perceptual awareness scale in combination with ERPs time-locked to T2 onset (components P1, N1, N2, and P3). Furthermore, a classification task preceding visibility ratings allowed to track task performance. The behavioral results indicate a graded rather than an all-or-none pattern of visual awareness. Corresponding graded differences in the N1, N2, and P3 components were observed for the comparison of visibility levels. These findings suggest that conscious perception during the attentional blink can occur in a graded fashion. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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